Visual stabilization of the eyes in primates.
Observers moving through a textured three-dimensional world experience potentially confusing patterns of optic flow. Recent experiments on monkeys and humans have revealed the existence of rapid, yet cortically mediated, reflex eye movements that automatically single out images in the plane of fixation for stabilization and ignore images that are nearer or further.
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Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4435, USA. fam@lsr.nei.nih.gov
D000818:Animals; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology